Word: factors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard engineering school. In the continuous extension of higher education -- liberal and technical -- to greater numbers of American youth lies one promising route to this country's salvation. A college education is not longer, as in the last decade, a privilege -- modern youth has found it an essential factor toward success. --The Dartmouth...
...Having his tonsils out will make little difference in his susceptibility to colds, and bronchitis occurs more frequently in tonsillectomized children and the same is true of pneumonia. On the other hand an infected tonsil may develop local trouble, may be a factor in systemic disease and may be a cause in less easily classified but threatening diseases such as excessive fatigue. It also may be a factor in scarlet fever and diphtheria...
...deeply grateful for the splendid support of the Daily Record, whose great influence in Boston and throughout the entire State of Massachusetts was a most important factor in my success...
...Mata Hari, and suffers accordingly. Despite the stereotyped plot, the film is capably handled, and proves interesting. Miss Loy, entrusted with the all-important mission of investigating the loyalty of the Turkish commander of the Dardanelles, moves through her role with capable restraint. George Brent is the disturbing factor in Miss Loy's counter-espionage as the self-confident, blustering American, of the species seen exclusively in the movies. But even his characteristic Americana fails to upset Miss Loy in her unmasking of the sinister Turkish officer, who is planning to sell the straits to the British. Courageous execution...
Absinthe connoisseurs contemptuously observed that the humdrum bourgeois statesmen who make up the present Cabinet were wasting their time debating anxiously such a minor factor as the alcoholic strength of a drink which gets its chief effect from wormwood (absinthium) which contains the powerful narcotic absinthin. The alcohol in absinthe acts as the carrier and catalyst of the drug in its subtle assault upon the brain. Neither wormy nor a wood, wormwood is a bitter-tasting weed fairly common in Europe and the U. S. under such local names as madderwort, mugwort, ming-wort, warmot and wermuth. Swiss farmers never...